Results for “homelessness”

Songs

Paul Simon

Written with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, this track from Graceland fuses Zulu isicathamiya vocal tradition with a spare…

homelessness and displacement cross-cultural collaboration communal grief and endurance

Pearl Jam

A portrait of a homeless man drawn through fragmented, impressionistic images rather than a linear story. The song's title…

homelessness mental illness social invisibility

The Smiths

A restless plea to be driven anywhere but home turns into a swooning fantasy about dying alongside the person behind the wheel.…

homelessness and unbelonging romantic devotion as self-annihilation loneliness disguised as humor

Magazine

A song about ideological homelessness, built around a narrator who has infiltrated a crowd or movement only to find himself…

ideological disillusionment alienation from crowds and movements cynicism about political certainty

Randy Newman

A booming, boosterish anthem that turns out to be a satire of boosterism itself: the narrator's civic pride is so shallow and…

civic pride as delusion class blindness American boosterism